Jihadists need to be treated like Nazis

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Britain can be proud of the way our security and intelligence services disrupt home-grown terrorists but for too long we have failed to neutralise the ideology that infects them in the first place.

To tackle the growing threat of British jihadism, we should take a leaf out of the wartime efforts to expose Nazism, and the Cold War campaigns to counter communism.

The extremist ideology of political Islam is a similarly totalitarian creed, requiring an organised effort to undermine its appeal and to strengthen the resilience of communities most vulnerable to it.